September 20, 2012

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Vol. 39 No. 30

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September 20, 2012 Northern Ontario’s First Nation Voice since 1974

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NAN fed up with police racism

Off to the races in Sandy Lake...

Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Photo submitted by Lisa Roach

More than 100 community members of all ages took part in Run for Diabetes in Sandy Lake First Nation on Sept. 15. Once ranked as third in the world in cases of diabetes per capita, Sandy Lake organizers said the run was aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles. See story on page 15.

Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and three chiefs have filed a human rights complaint after Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) issued a news release containing virulent and demeaning stereotypes about First Nations people.

“When I first saw the press release that the Thunder Bay Police made, I was just really disappointed and hurt by it, knowing Adam (Yellowhead) and his friends,” said Nibinamik Chief Johnny Yellowhead. “The way they were labeled, like fresh breath, I think that is unprofessional.”

The TBPS issued a press release on Sept. 1 titled The Fresh Breath Killer Captured!!, about an arrest in the death of Adam Yellowhead, a First Nations person from Eabametoong who had been found deceased on Aug. 29 in Thunder Bay. See Chiefs on page 3

ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᐦᐅᐣᑕᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑫᑭᔭᓄᒋᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᒪᐣᑐ ᐅᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᓫᐁᓂ ᑲᕑᐱᐣᑐᕑ ᐊᐧᐊᐧᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐃᐧᓇᐣ

ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᑭᐸᐦᐅᐣᑕᐧ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ ᑭᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐊᐊᐧᐠ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐡᑭᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᐣ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐯᔑᑯᐱᒥᑯᓇᑲ ᐁᑭ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐃᐁᐧᓂ. ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᓇᐦᐃᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᓂ ᑭᐃᔕᐊᐧᐠ ᒐᐢᑎᐢ ᕑᐊᓄᐟ ᓫᐁᐢᑐᕑ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᑕᔑᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ, ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᑌᐸᑲᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 10 ᐊᑯᓇᐠ 14 ᐁᑭᐊᐣᑕᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐊᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ. ᑭᐃᓇᐧᑌ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐃᔑᒋᑲᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᐣ ᐊᐱ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑕᐧ, ᒥᓇ ᒋᐃᔑᐃᐧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑐᑲᓂ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᐧᐨ. “ᒣᑕᐁᐧ ᐃᔑᒋᑫᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᐅᑲᑭᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑫᑯᓂ ᐃᑯ ᒋᔭᓂᔑ ᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐊᐧᐨ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᓫᐊᕑᐃᐣ ᓯᑦᓴᐣ, ᑲᓂᑲᓂ ᐱᒧᑐᐨ ᐅᒣᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ. ᓯᑦᓴᐣ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔦ ᐃᓇᓄᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐣ ᐊᓄᑭᐃᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓄᐱᒪᑲᒥᐠ ᑲᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓇᐣ ᑲᑕᓇᓄᑭᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐅᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐊᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐣ. “ᐊᐱ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓂᑕᐧ ᐅᒪ ᑲᑭᐸᐦᐅᑕᐧ,

ᐅᑲᑭᑫᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭᐃᔑ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑲᑭᐱᒥ ᐊᐧᐸᑕᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᒋᑭᐁᐧᐃᐧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐅᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐃᐧᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ, ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᑫᐊᔭᓂᐨ ᑫᓇᒋᐸᐦᐃᐊᐧᓇᐊᐧᐨ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᔭᐸᑕᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐅᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᑐᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐁᑭᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑎᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑲᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒣᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ, ᐅᑭᒪᐅᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᐱᒥᐊᓴᐧᐸᒪᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐣ, ᒥᓯᐁᐧᑲᒥᐠ ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᐣ. ᐅᒣᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑫᑲᐟ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᑐᑕᓇᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᐸᒥ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐊᐧᐸᐣ 45 ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᓇᐣᑕ ᐱᑯ 20 ᑲᐊᔭᑭᐣ ᓄᐱᒪᑲᒥᐠ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ. ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᐁᑫᐧᓇᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᑭᐸᐦᐅᑐᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐁᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑐᑲᐣ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ. ᐅᑭᒪᐅᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᐱᒥᐊᓴᐧᐸᒪᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐣ ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᕑᐊᐣᑎ ᓴᐣᐟᐱᐠ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᑭᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᐊᐧᐸᓂᐣ ᐅᒣᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᐱᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐁᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐯᔑᐠ ᑲᐃᔑᑲᑫᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐅᑭᒪᐅᐣ. “ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐅᑭᒪᐅᐣ ᑲᐱᒥᓂᔕᐦᐊᐠ ᐅᑕᓄᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᐊᔐᓭᓂᐠ ᑲᓇᓇᐱ ᒪᓂᐊᐧᐨ

ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᒋᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐃᐧᑕᐧ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᓂ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒥᓄᓭᓂᐨ ᑭᒋᐦᐊᐣ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᓴᐣᐟᐱᐠ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑲᑭ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᑭᐃᔑᒥᑭᑫᒪᑲᐣ ᑭᐡᐱᐣ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓂᑕᐧ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐃᐧᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᑲᐸᐃᐧᓂᐨ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᒥᓇ ᑫᑕᔑᒣᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ, ᑌᐯᐧ ᐱᑯ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᑲ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᒪᒪᓂᐊᐧᐨ. ᐯᔑᐠ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᑲᑭᐅᑕᐱᓇᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ

ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᑯ ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᓂ ᐁᑲᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᒥᓀᐧᑕᐣ ᐅᒪ ᐁᒣᑕᐁᐧᐨ. ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᐅᑐᒋᒪᒥᓀᐧᑕᐣ ᐁᐧᐃᒋᒣᐁᐧᒪᐨ ᐅᐃᐧᒋ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᒪᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑲᑲᓇᐁᐧᐣᑕᑯᓯᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐯᑭᐡ ᐁᐅᒋ ᐱᒥ ᑭᑫᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᐊᐃᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐅᒋ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒪ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᓂᐠ. “ᓇᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐣᑐᒋ ᑲᑭᑫᓂᒪᐠ

ᑲᐃᐧᒋᒣᑕᐁᐧᒪᑲᐧ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ, ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ ᐁᔑᓂᑲᓱᐨ ᑲᐃᓇᑌᐠ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ. “ᐣᑭᒥᓀᐧᑕᒥᐣ ᐁᑭᐊᔭᒥᐦᐃᑎᔭᐣᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐸᐸᐱᔭᐣᐠ.” ᒥᓇ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐊᑎᐟ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᒋᐃᐧᒣᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐊᐱ ᑲᐃᐧᐣᑕᒪᑯᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᐧᒋ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐣ ᐁᒥᓀᐧᑕᑲᐧᓂᐠ, ᐊᒥ ᐊᐱᐣ ᓇᑫ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᑭᔭᓂ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ. “ᐁᑲᐧ ᓄᑯᑦ ᓂᐊᐧᐸᒪᐠ ᐁᒪᒪᐃᐧ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᐁᔭᓂ ᓇᑲᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐸᑲᐦᐅᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᓂ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᐢ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐁᑲ ᐃᐧᑲ ᐁᑭᐅᒋᐃᓀᓂᒥᑎᓱᐨ ᓂᑲᓂᑕᒪᓱᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐃᔑᑲᐡᑭᐦᐅᐨ, ᐊᓇᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᐱᑐᑕᐣ ᐅᑕᓇᐠ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᐁᑭᐱ ᑲᑲᑫᐧᒋᒪᐨ ᑯᑕᑭᔭᐣ ᐸᑲᐣ ᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᓂ ᒋᑲᐧᑫᒋᑐᓂᐨ ᒥᓴᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑲ ᐁᔭᓇᑭ ᓇᑲᒋᑐᓂᐨ. “ᓂᐃᐧᑕᒪᐊᐧᐠ, ᑲᐃᐧᓂᐣ ᓇᐣᑕ ᒥᐱᑯ ᐃᔑᒪᒣᑕᐁᐧᐣ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᓴᓴᐯᐣᑕᐠ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐊᐱ ᑲᔭᓂ ᒪᒋᒋᑲᑌᓂᐠ. “ᔕᑯᐨ ᐣᑭᒪᒪᑲᑌᐣᑕᐣ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐠ ᐁᑭᐱᔕᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᐱ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑯᔭᑭᑕᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐁᐱᐧᐃᒋᐃᐧᑯᔭᐠ ᐅᒪ ᑲᑕᔑᑭᐸᐦᐅᑯᔭᐣᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ.

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ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᑊ ᐳᓂᒋᑫᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᐊᐧᓴ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂᐠ

ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑐᓇᑐᓇᐊᐧ ᑫᑭᐅᒋ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐧᑕ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᑫᐧᐠ

ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᑊ ᐃᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᒪ ᑕᐃᐧᒋᑕᐧᓯᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᐧᓴ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐊᐦᑭᐃᐧ ᐅᓇᒋᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᑲᐱᒪᓄᑲᑌᐠ, ᐁᑭᐃᔑ ᓂᓯᑕᐃᐧᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑲᑭᓇ ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑲᐱᒥ ᐅᓇᒋᑲᑌᓂᑭᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᓂᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᔕᐳᓂᑲᑌᓂᑭᐣ. ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᑊ ᐅᑭᒪᑲᐣ ᑕᐧᓂ ᒪᐧᕑᐃᐢ ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐊᐧᓴ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑕᐃᔑᒋᑫᒪᑲᐣ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐊᐣᒋᓭᐠ ᑲᐃᐦᑯ ᑎᐯᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᓇᔓᐊᐧᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᐱ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑕᑭᒥᐊᐧ. ᐊᒥ ᑲᔦ ᑲᐃᑭᑐᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑎᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᑲᑲᐯᔑᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐅᑌᐯᐧᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐊᐧᓴ ᑭᐁᐧᑎᓄᐠ ᐅᓇᑯᓂᑫᐃᐧᓂ ᐁᑭᐸᑯᐡᑭᑫᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᓯᐃᐧᓇᐣ, ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑲᓇᐊᐧᐸᒥᑎᓱᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐱᑯ ᐅᑕᔓᑕᒪᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑭᒋᓇᒣᑯᓯᑊ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ.

ᐊᔕ ᒥᔑᐣ ᐱᒧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑕᐣᑐᕑ ᐯ ᐅᑕᓂ ᓇᓇᑲᑕᐊᐧᐸᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᑲᓂᔭᐱᒋ ᒥᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᑫᐧᐠ ᑲᐊᑕᐊᐧᓂᑎᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᒣᑫᐧᐅᑌᓇᐠ. ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧᑫᐧᐠ ᐅᐱᒥᐃᐧᒋᑫᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᑭᐃᑭᑐᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐃᐧᐸᑭᑎᓇᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᐃᐁᐧᓂ ᐃᑫᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐊᑕᐊᐧᓂᑎᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐅᑌᓇᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐊᔕ ᓄᒪᑫ ᐅᐣᒋᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧ ᐊᓄᑭᑕᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐁᔭᓇᑭ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᒣ ᑲᑫᐧ ᓇᐣᑕ ᑐᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᐊᓂᒥᓭᐃᐧᓂ, ᒥᐱᑯ ᑭᔭᐱᐨ ᐁᐱᒋᑭᒧᑌᐣᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᒥᓇ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᐧᐸᑭᑎᓇᑲᓄᓯᐣ ᔓᓂᔭ ᐅᒪ ᒋᑭᐅᒋ ᑲᑫᐧ ᐃᐧᒋᒋᑲᑌᑭᐸᐣ ᐃᓯᓭᐃᐧᐣ. ᐊᑎᑲ ᐃᐁᐧ ᐯᔑᐠ ᐃᐧᒋᐦᐃᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐅᒋ ᐊᐃᔕᐊᐧᐸᐣ ᑲᐊᑕᐊᐧᓂᑎᓱᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᑭᐃᓀᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᒋᐅᒋ ᐳᓂᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᑭᐡᑭᓇᐸᐣ ᔓᓂᔭᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᒥᑭᓯᐃᐧᐱᓯᑦ 2012.

KI pulls out of Far North Act

Thunder Bay organization creating prostitute help plan

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation has pulled out of Ontario’s Far North land use planning process, citing the fact that all planning would have to be approved by a provincial minister.

KI Chief Donny Morris said the Far North Act would change the jurisdiction and authority of KI on its homeland.

He said the community believes the Far North Act denies Aboriginal rights, Aboriginal title and treaty rights of KI.

Dealing with Thunder Bay’s high incidence of First Nations prostitutes is getting increased attention from a number of organizations in the city.

Ontario Native Women’s Association plans to release a report detailing prostitution in the city. There is also an outreach program that has been running for months.

But despite the increase in attention, the issue remains underground and receives little funding.

For example, a drop-in program that provided services for street workers had its funding cut in March 2012.

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ᐅᒪᒪᒥᒪ ᑭᒥᑲᒪᐊᐧ ᒋᐊᒋᒥᓇᑲᓄᐨ ᐸᓴᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᐊᐃᓇᓀᐅᔕᑊ ᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᓀ ᐅᒪᒪᒥᒪ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐱᐨ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᑲᐊᒧᐁᐧᒪᑲᓂᐠ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᑭᑭᐡᑲᑯᐣ ᑭᒥᑲᒪᐊᐧᑲᓂᐃᐧ ᐸᓴᐦᐃᑲᓇᐣ ᐯᔑᑲᐧᐣ ᐁᔑᓇᑲᐧᓂᐠ ᐊᐃᐧᔭᐣ ᐁᐊᔭᓂᐨ ᒥᑕᐡ ᐅᐁᐧᓂ ᑫᐱᒪᒋᐦᐃᑯᐨ. ᑌᔾᓫᐅᕑ ᑕᐧᐣ ᐳᕑᒥᐟ ᐊᐧᐃᐧᔭ ᐃᔑᓂᑲᓱ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᒪᒪᒪᐣ ᓫᐊᑯᑕ ᓱ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓭᐢᑲᒋᐊᐧᐣ ᐅᐣᒋᐊᐧᐣ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑕᑕᒪᐣ ᑲᓫ ᐯ ᐃᐡᑯᓂᑲᓂᐠ ᐅᐣᒋᐊᐧᐣ, ᐃᔑᓂᑲᑌᓂ ᐊᑊᓫᐊᐢᑎᐠ ᐊᓂᑦᔭ ᑲᑭᑭᐡᑲᑯᐨ ᐊᑯᓯᐃᐧᓂ, ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᓇᐱᐨ ᐊᔭᒪᑲᓯᓄᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑐᑲᐣ ᐃᓇᐱᓀᐃᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᑕᐡ ᐸᓴᐦᐃᑲᓇᓂᐠ ᑲᐃᐧᐣ ᒋᑭᐅᔑᒋᑫᒪᑲᐠ ᒥᐢᑯ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᐡᑲᐊᐧᑎᓯᓇᓂᐊᐧᐠ. ᒥᑐᓂ ᑭᔭᓂᒪᓂ ᒋᑭᒥᑭᑫᑕᒪᐃᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᐁᐧ ᐃᑫᐧ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᑎᓂᑲᑌᓂᑭᐸᐣ ᒪᔭᑦ ᒋᓇᐱᓭᓂᐠ ᒋᐃᐧᒋᐃᔑᓇᑯᓯᒪᐨ, ᐃᐁᐧ ᑕᐡ ᑲᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓂᒥᓭᓂᐠ ᐁᑲ ᓇᐱᐨ ᐁᒥᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑫᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐃᐧᔭᐃᐧᐊᐧᐠ ᑐᑲᐣ ᐅᒥᐢᑭᐧᒥᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐸᓴᐦᐃᑲᓇᓂᐊᐧ. ᐃᓂᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᑕᐡ ᑲᑭᒥᓂᑯᐨ ᐸᑲᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑫᐧᑭᑌ ᐊᑲᒪᑭᐠ ᐁᐅᐣᒋᓂᐨ.

ᐊᐧᐸᓄᐠ ᐃᓀᑫ ᓂᐱᑲᐣ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᒋᑲᑌ ᒋᐅᐣᑕᐱᑫᒧᐠ ᐊᐧᑌᓂᑲᓂᔭᑊ ᐅᑯᐁᐧᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐡᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐅᐣᑌᕑᐃᔪ ᐊᐧᑌᓂᑲᓂᔭᐱᓂ ᑲᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓄᑭᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᒣᑲᐧᐨ ᐅᐱᒥ ᓇᓇᑕᐃᐧᑭᑫᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᐃᐧ ᐅᐣᒋ ᐊᓂᑲᐧᐱᑫᒧᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐣᒋ ᓂᐱᑲᐣ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐊᐱᐣ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑲᐣ ᑲᐃᐧᐃᔑᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᒋᐅᑎᑕᐱᑫᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑫᔭᓂᓇᐱᑫᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᓂᔭᓇᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐃᐧ ᑕᔑᑫᐃᐧᓇᐣ ᑕᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᓴᑲᐱᑫᐦᐃᑲᑌᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᑲᐅᐣᒋᓭᐠ ᐃᐡᑯᑌ - ᐊᑯᑭᐣᐠ, ᐊᐸᒪᑐᐣᐠ, ᓀᐡᑲᐣᑕᑲ, ᐁᐧᐱᑫᐧ ᒥᓇ ᓂᐱᓇᒥᐠ. ᑲᐃᐧᓂᐣ ᐃᑯ ᒪᔑ ᑫᒋᓇᐨ ᒋᑭᔑ ᐅᓀᐣᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᑲᐱᒥ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ, ᔕᑯᐨ ᓄᑯᒥᑫ ᑲᑭᐃᐧᐣᑕᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᑭᓫᐃᑊᐢ ᑲᑦᐸᓂ ᑲᑭᐅᓀᐣᑕᐠ ᒋᒥᑲᓇᑫᐨ ᑲᐯᐦᐃ ᒋᐱᒥᔭᐸᑕᐠ ᐃᒪ ᒋᐅᐣᒋᒪᒋᑕᒧᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᓇᑭᓇ ᐱᓂᐡ ᐁᐧᑎ ᑲᐃᐧᑕᔑᐅᔑᒋᑲᑌ ᐅᐡᑭ ᐱᐊᐧᐱᑯᑲᐣ ᒥᐦᐅᒪ ᑲᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐡᑲᒧᐊᐧᐨ ᐊᐧᑌᓂᑲᓂᔭᐱᓂ ᐁᐅᐣᒋ ᓇᓇᑲᒋᑐᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᒪ ᑫᐃᓇᒧᐠ ᐅᑕᐸᓂᒥᑲᓇ ᒋᔭᓂᓇᐱᑫᑯᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐊᐧᑌᓂᑲᓂᔭᑊ.

Mother finds bone marrow match An 18-year-old mother with a rare form of cancer has found a bone marrow match that may save her life.

Taylor Dawn Vermette-Wawia, who’s mother is a Lakota Sioux from Saskatchewan and father is from Gull Bay First Nation, has Aplastic anemia, a rare disorder where bone marrow fails to produce blood cells.

Finding a donor for Vermitte-Wawia was difficult, as there are limited numbers of First Nations donors in the stem cell and marrow network.

The donor is an indigenous person from a country on the other side of the world.

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East of Lake Nipigon transmission line possible Inside Wawatay this week: The Biindigaate film fest features some spectacular Inuit films, including People of a Feather (top left). First Nations model Jade Willoughby (top right) weighs in on the fashion industry adopting headdresses as a style. Taylor Dawn VermetteWawia (mid left) found a bone marrow donor from across the world.

A Ring of Fire transmission line under consideration (mid right) would connect up to five First Nations. Sandy Lake youth (bottom left) and adults alike took to the streets for a diabetes awarenss run. And the dean of Lakehead University’s new law school (bottom right) promises that Aboriginal culture and worldview will be a part of every relevant course at the new school.

The Ontario Power Authority is examining the possibility of running an electrical transmission line from Nipigon to the Ring of Fire.

The line could connect up to five First Nation communities to the southern electricity grid – Marten Falls, Eabametoong, Neskantaga, Webequie and Nibinamik.

While no decisions have been made on the line, with the recent announcement of Cliffs’ plan to build an all-season road from Nakina to the Ring of Fire, the OPA is looking into the transmission plan in detail.

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KI pulls out of Far North planning process Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) has pulled out of the Ontario land use planning process under the Far North Act. “At the end of the day, when everything is completed and done it is the minister who has the last say,” said KI Chief Donny Morris. “We want control and to have the minister have the last say, that is not what we want. So that is why we pulled out.”

Morris sent the Aug. 31 letter to Dianne Corbett, director of Far North Branch,

Ministry of Natural Resources, announcing the decision.

Posted on the k i t c h e n u h m ay ko o s i b . c o m website, the letter stated that KI entered the land use planning process in a good faith attempt to work with Ontario to reduce land use conflicts in the KI homeland.

“When we do the land use planning, it is for our own community membership to determine the future of our resources, our lands and water, not the minister,” Morris said.

Morris said it has become clear to the community over time that land use planning

under the Far North Act would change the jurisdiction and authority of KI on its homeland.

“At the end of the day, when everything is completed and done it is the minister who has the last say,” – KI Chief Donny Morris

“It is our view that the Far North Act acts to deny or limit the Aboriginal rights,

Aboriginal title or treaty rights of KI and limits or defines the consultation and accommodation obligations between KI and Ontario,” Morris said in the letter. “In short, we cannot work within the limitations of the current legislation.”

Morris said the community believes that new jointly created legislation would be required to achieve its goals of recognition, restoration and jurisdiction.

An MNR spokeswoman said Ontario respects KI’s decision not to go ahead with community-based land use planning.

“We feel the Far North Act enables a joint approach to land use planning with First Nations in Ontario,” said Jolanta Kowalski, senior media relations officer with the MNR. “We remain open to continue the communitybased land use planning dialogue if the community expresses interest in the future. If KI wants to pull out, it’s unfortunate but we respect the decision and we are open to talking again if they change their minds.”

KI has fought a number of public battles over decision making on its traditional lands. In 2006 a group of

band members, including Morris, who became known as the KI6 were put in jail for three months for standing up to Platinex mining company.

And earlier this year KI fought to have God’s Lake Resources, a gold mining exploration company, banned from exploring on its traditional lands.

In response the Ontario government withdrew over 22,000 square kilometers of KI’s traditional territory from mining exploration. But even that decision was marred with controversy, as KI’s leadership was not involved in the decision.

Ring of Fire transmission line could connect communities Shawn Bell Wawatay News

The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) is examining a plan to run an electrical transmission line from Nipigon to Nakina and then into the Ring of Fire along the proposed north-south transportation corridor.

Tim Butters, an OPA communications advisor, said that given the recent announcement of the allseason road between Nakina and the proposed Ring of Fire mines, the OPA is looking at the Nip igon to Ring of Fire transmission line “in more detail.”

While Butters noted that no decisions on the transmission corridor have yet been made, he said the plan could involve connecting a number of remote First Nations to the southern electricity grid. “(The Nipigon to Ring of Fire corridor) may be able to connect up to five remote First Nation communities to the Ontario grid, including Marten Falls First Nation, Eabametoong First Nation, Neskantaga First Nation, Webequie First Nation and Nibinamik First Nation,” Butters wrote in an email to Wawatay News.

Matawa First Nations have long argued that their communities should be connected to southern electricity grids as part of any development in the Ring of Fire.

Chief Eli Moonias of Marten Falls First Nation told Wawatay News in April 2012 that the plan to power Ring

of Fire mines on diesel fuel was disrespectful not only to the natural environment, but to the local communities that rely on diesel fuel for power.

“(The Nipigon to Ring of Fire corridor) may be able to connect up to five remote First Nation communities to the Ontario grid, including Marten Falls First Nation, Eabametoong First Nation, Neskantaga First Nation, Webequie First Nation and Nibinamik First Nation.”

– Tim Butters OPA Communications Advisor

“We want infrastructure out of the development, and a new powerline will do this,” Moonias said. “The province should support this for environmental reasons over diesel, and the federal government should support this long-range outlook as a grid connection will eliminate costly community diesel generation systems.”

Greenstone’s mayor welcomed the announcement that a possible east of Lake Nipigon transmission corridor is being considered.

The transmission line running east from Lake Nipigon was part of Greenstone’s Kick Start for

the Northwest plan released in 2011.

Mayor Renauld Beaulieu said transmission lines serve as “ribbons of prosperity.”

“A shared road and transmission corridor north from the Nakina area would align with the provincial policy statement that requires consideration of multiuse transportation/utility corridors,” Beaulieu said.

“Even more importantly, a stable electrical supply for First Nation communities currently dependent on diesel generators can address a lot of social and economic disadvantages.”

Butters said the OPA was directed in February 2011 by Ontario’s minister of Energy to develop a plan to connect Ontario’s remote First Nation communities in the northwest to the southern electricity grid.

He said that the Northwest Ontario First Nation Transmission Planning Committee was established to determine whether “it is feasible and cost-effective to connect remote First Nation communities to Ontario’s electricity system.”

The committee is currently working with the OPA in examining the technical and economic viability of these connections, Butters said.

As for the Nipigon to Ring of Fire transmission line, Butters said no decisions have been made.

“When this plan is complete, results will be made available,” he said.

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Francine Kwandibens, daughter of the late Adam Yellowhead, speaks as NAN lawyer Julian Falconer and NAN Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler look on.

Chiefs file human rights complaint against police Continued from page 1 Within minutes another press release was issued by Thunder Bay Police Service retracting the first press release.

“When I did police training, when we were doing codes, we never used to label people how they lived,” Yellowhead said. “I think that was unprofessional and uncalled for. I think it really needs to be looked at and fixed.”

Yellowhead is looking for TBPS to treat everybody equally.

“When you work with people, in order to gain respect, you need to show respect,” Yellowhead said.

During a Sept. 5 meeting between Fiddler, Deputy Grand Chief Goyce Kakegamic and Deputy Grand Chief Les Louttit and TBPS members, Deputy Chief of Police Andy Hay said the TBPS would be undertaking an internal investigation into

whether there was misconduct

by Reid. But Hay also said the TBPS does not see the press release as a racial issue.

Thunder Bay Mayor Keith Hobbs, a member of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board, also made comments to the Chronicle Journal that the Thunder Bay Police Service need not apologize and it was wrong to put a racial connotation on the press release.

“What a sorry and sad state of affairs that a member of a police services board and the mayor of this city would draw these conclusions prior to any investigation, would in essence foreclose the concerns of many community members,” said Julian Falconer, legal counsel for Nishnawbe Aski Nation.

“The truth of the matter is that this comment in this press release needs investigation by experts who are neutral and objective. The comments of

Mayor Hobbs before an investigation was done, the comments of the chief of police make clear that they have disqualified themselves as being objective.”

Yellowhead and Fiddler filed the human rights complaint at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario along with Eabametoong Chief Harry Papah and Namaygoosisagagun Chief Angela Paavola.

“After receiving numerous complaints over the years of the misconduct of the Thunder Bay Police, this latest incident was the tipping point for the First Nation communities to file a complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal,” Fiddler said.

“First Nations chiefs and First Nations organizations in Thunder Bay are frustrated by the irresponsibility of members of the police force over the years and this latest incident is a clear example that serious steps must be taken.”

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Some like it hot Xavier Kataquapit UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY

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y friends get fed up with me when I am sharing a home with them. Not that I am hard to get along with and as a matter of fact they say the opposite but when it comes to keeping the house warm I think I go overboard. I like the heat turned up when I am indoors and in particular if it is fall, winter or early spring. I can think of few things more pleasurable than staring through a frosty window at a blizzard outside with snow blowing all over the place and the temperature freezing while I sit on the couch sipping tea in a very well heated home.

Often my friends comment that they feel like they are in a sauna when I am around and tinkering with the thermostat. I have to admit I crave the heat when I am indoors. I even start wearing long john underwear in September and I don’t give them up until May. It does have something to do with the Cree culture and my experiences growing up on the James Bay coast.

I love a warm fire and heat for a reason. As a matter of fact I can recall many Elders back up north in Attawapiskat that kept their homes extremely warm in the colder months. They also wore heavy clothing even in the summer as they just didn’t ever seem to get enough warmth.

I recall so many freezing days out on the land in our prospector tent when I was a boy. Although the weather was cold and the wind blowing off of the bay so fierce our family was always so, so warm in the tent. As a child I remember wondering how my Elders could stand being so hot all the time but after many years of experiencing harsh weather while hunting and gathering I picked up this craving for heat.

You have to realize that most of the Elders from up the coast never had the luxuries we enjoy down south until just very recently. In the 1990s we finally got running water so we could just turn on a tap and not have to head down to the river no matter what the weather was like to fetch some H2O. With the running water of course we also ended up with real toilets so we did not have to take the regular trek to the outhouse. That was a big deal because finally the elderly people had a little more of a comfortable life

and could experience some of what many in Canada had been enjoying for about a hundred years.

I don’t think many of us can imagine how hard life was for the Elders and my ancestors up the coast. Lots of people have terrible arthritis and other problems because of spending so much time in freezing and wet weather out on the land. Sixty years ago most of my people were living in shacks, cabins, prospector tents and the Askikan (a traditional Cree house made of logs covered in frozen moss).

Those were hard days when people had little work, hardly any money and the cost of food and provisions at the local store were outrageous.

People were sick and many died in those conditions.

So, when times got a little better and more of my people got an education life became easier. There was some housing construction but never enough, so too many people ended up crammed into homes. Still even with all the technology available we were still getting power from a diesel generator for the entire community of Attawapiskat as recently as 10 years ago. Most people up the coast still heat their homes with wood and for the elderly that is a huge task and also dangerous. In regards to housing most First Nations still have Third World conditions as obvious with the news reports on the crisis in Attawapiskat recently.

You might understand why I crave a very warm home with all my experience living in freezing conditions out on the land and even in the community at times. I come by this addiction to heat honestly. The strange thing is that although myself and most Cree people I know up the coast love a hot home we don’t really like hot weather. I think twice about travelling to Cuba or Florida in the winter because I know how terribly hot the weather is going to be. We Cree actually prefer cooler weather and when it is more than 21 or 22 degrees Celsius watch out because we are going to be crabby, uncomfortable and just to too hot. Most Crees prefer fall, spring and winter to summer.

I guess our craving for a hot home has more to do with just having to put up with so much freezing damp conditions in our lives and we make up for it these days when it is as easy as turning up a thermostat. For many of us it is still a luxury to be able to be warm or toasty hot in our home without having to constantly struggle to keep the fire burning.

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Relapse prevention for substance abuse Gaetano Cospito COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND ADDICTION SERVICES

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ecovery from an addiction is a life changing experience for the person that for years has been in its stranglehold. For the first time in a long time the recovered addict experiences what it means to be in control of their own life and not live under the domination of an addictive substance. Although the grip of the addiction has been broken and the recovered person is now able to move forward with their life, the reality is that the addiction still lurks in the shadows waiting to once again reinstate itself in the person’s life. Recovering from a life of addiction is just the first step to a life long work of maintaining the new found freedom that comes with sobri-

and learn to replace those distortions with realistic and healthy ones.

6. Be alert to high risk situations to use and have a ready plan to counteract those situations.

7. Learn how to deal with cravings and urges to use.

8. Take control of your choices and learn to say “no” to opportunities to use.

ety. For the recovered addict preventing a relapse into their former substance abuse should be their day to day mission.

Unfortunately, many recovering addicts don’t move beyond the initial stage of their recovery into the day to day work required to maintain it. Failure to develop a tight relapse prevention program for oneself inevitably leads to the collapse of the person’s recovery and their return to the addiction. What exactly then is relapse prevention and what does it entail? Relapse prevention is the deliberate effort made by the recovered addict to not lose the gains made in getting sober from their substance use. This, however, does not happen magically but requires careful and calculated planning by the recovered addict to do what needs to be done in order to keep from slipping back into the addiction.

What then should the recovered addict do to prevent himself/herself from relapsing?

The following are some pro-

posals from recovered addicts that they have found helpful in doing in order maintain their sobriety: 1. Access support groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous where there are other recovering addicts who commonly share the desire of getting sober and staying sober.

2. Access counseling to help address personal problems related to the years of substance abuse and to help consolidate efforts made at maintaining sobriety.

3. Get into a new daily routine that does not involve people, places, and things that promote the use of alcohol or drugs.

4. With the help of counseling and other positive sources of support, learn to change addictive thinking patterns and self-defeating and dysfunctional behaviors.

5. Learn to identify distorted core believes about oneself, others, and the world,

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CONTRIBUTORS Xavier Kataquapit Stephanie Wesley Jade Willoughby Gaetano Cospito John Ferris Daniel Tait

Getting sober and remaining sober requires serious work and commitment. Throughout recovery the addict will be faced with many situations that will be difficult to deal with, but working a well thought out and tight relapse prevention program will prove beneficial in maintaining that recovery.

The recovered addict must bear in mind that there is no substitute for living sober, and that all good things in life come with sobriety.

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CORRECTION Re: Ring of Fire Judicial Review hits more delays, Wawatay News, Sept. 13.

The environmental assessment (EA) for Noront Resources’ Eagle’s Nest Ring of Fire project is nearing completion of its Terms of Reference.

In a Wawatay News article (Ring of Fire judicial review hits more delays, Sept. 13) it was reported that Noront’s EA has been put on hold.

In fact, the company is close to completing its Terms of Reference for the EA. Noront President and CEO Wes Hanson submitted the following statement to Wawatay News following publication of the article: “The Environmental Assessment for it’s f lagship Eagle’s Nest project is in fact underway and NOT delayed due to the change in the road route proposed by Cliffs and the Ontario Government.

The Company is currently completing the final copy of the Terms of Reference, which outlines the work that needs to be done in order to complete the Environmental Assessment. This work is currently in process.

The Company’s next step is to complete the studies that have been underway since 2009 and complete the final draft of the Environmental Assessment, which will then be submitted to the Ministry of Environment, for review, public comment and following finalization, Ministerial Approval.�

Wawatay News apologizes for the error.

John Ferris/Special to Wawatay News

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Befriend us, don’t insult us Editor’s Note: Model Jade Willoughby, who grew up in Whitesand First Nation, writes about a controversy in the fashion world of models wearing First Nations headdresses as fashion.

Willoughby was responding to a piece run by Glassbook magazine (www.facebook.com/#!/ GLASSbook), but her comments touch on the broader issue of non-Aboriginal people wearing ceremonial dress as fashion.

Jade Willoughby Special to Wawatay News

As a First Nations model, who has had the pleasure of meeting with many nations across what is now known as

North America, I do not believe makeup artist Erin Heather was being hyper sensitive in addressing the image produced

by GLASSbook Magazine.

Non-natives who wear American Indian costumes are pretending to be someone of another race. Those who play “dress up� by wearing an American Indian costume, headdress or war bonnet are not only failing to acknowledge the existence of over 500 recognized native nations, each separate and distinct from one another, they are making light of centuries of suffering, oppression and genocide endured by the indigenous people of this country. Enforcing racial stereotypes

of native peoples as savages in nondescript feathers and fringe also perpetuates the myth that we are not active members of modern society This “Beautiful Native Headress� is actually a war bonnet.

These bonnets were only used by a dozen or so tribes in the Great Plains, such as the Sioux, Crow, Blackfeet, Cheyenne and Plains Cree.

Also important, traditionally only men wore these war bonnets. In other words, the only people who should be wearing war bonnets are chiefs or wellrespected warriors, like Tatanka Iyotanka, or Chief Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapa Lakota.

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Biwaase’aa after-school program finds limited funding Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Sharing circles are just one of the activities planned by youth outreach worker Touchan Fiddler after the Biwaase’aa program received funding for another year of operations.

“The program is huge and it has made tremendous impacts for many of our Native children and children in general within our communities.”

– Corinne Fox Shkoday Abinojiiwak Obimiwedoon

“With the sharing circles we are always trying to share stories from what our Elders shared with us,” said Fiddler, who is implementing the Biwaase’aa after-school program at McKellar Park Central Public School and Sherbrooke Public School in Thunder Bay. “They need to hear these stories. I think that was the most important part of our lives back in the day. We would spend time with Elders and listen to stories — that’s where we would get life’s lessons.”

Fiddler will also be doing

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A pow wow as part of the Biwaase’aa program activities at Our Lady of Charity School in 2011. physical activities with the elementary school students at the two schools.

“We’re showing them different sports to play,” Fiddler said. “We feed them also with healthy snacks.”

Fiddler estimated Sherbrooke’s Aboriginal student population makes up about 85 per cent of the student body and McKellar’s about 80 per cent.

“We average about 30

students a day,” Fiddler said about the McKellar afterschool program intake.

The Biwaase’aa program recently received enough financial support from the federal government, Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Royal Bank and a number of other sources, including unsolicited donations from individuals and local organizations, to keep operating for the

2012/2013 school year.

“We have three full-time youth workers, down from seven,” said Paul Francis, Biwaase’aa’s program manager.

“We’re still offering seven after-school (programs), so we were able to hire a new (full-time) position, an after-school coordinator.”

Francis said the afterschool coordinator will do the planning for the after-

school program and the youth outreach workers will be assigned to two schools each instead of the one school they were responsible for last year.

“We’re relying a lot more on part-time staff,” Francis said. “We have two part-time staff at each after-school site.”

In addition to Fiddler’s assignments at McKellar and Sherbrooke, after-school programs will also be delivered at Ogden Community School, Our Lady of Charity School, St. Ann School, St. Martin School and Pope John Paul II School.

The nutritional program offered in previous years will not be available.

The Biwaase’aa program was originally developed in 2004 by the Thunder Bay Urban Aboriginal Strategy to help address child poverty issues by increasing life skills of children, youth and their families through strategies of cultural awareness, academic improvement, structured activities and health nutritional supplementation.

After a significant portion of the funding was cut in 2007, the program continued providing its after-school program, in-school program, nutritional programs and structured activities through Shkoday Abinojiiwak Obimiwedoon.

Shkoday Abinojiiwak Obimiwedoon board president Corinne Fox announced the program was in danger of folding last November due to expiring funding from the Office of the Federal Interlocutor, a branch of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada.

“The program is huge and it has made tremendous impacts for many of our Native children and children in general within our communities,” Fox said at the time. “There is less divide and more understanding and appreciation for Aboriginal culture, tradition and beliefs.”

The Biwaase’aa program required about $700,000 to provide the level of services provided in previous years for this current school year, but Francis said they came up about $200,000 short of that goal.

He said the federal government provided $300,000 for 2011/2012 and is currently providing $250,000 for 2012/2013 and $200,000 for 2013/2014.

“They kept us going and then we would get in other grants, like United Way, Royal Bank, city funding to kind of help us with program costs,” Francis said.

Northlander train closure could lead to rising shipping costs Moosonee mayor says divestment of ONTC could affect northerners Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

The closure of the Northlander train and divestment of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC) could lead to higher transportation costs for the north, said the mayor of

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“The train has always been an ideal mode of transportation for them that’s comfortable. There’s easier access for a wheelchair and there’s more room to move than a bus.”

– Victor Mitchell Mayor of Moosonee

Moosonee.

Mayor Victor Mitchell said he is concerned that the sale of the ONTC and its subsidiaries could have long-term economic effects for the northern communities.

Earlier this year, the provincial government announced that the Northlander train, which runs from Toronto to Cochrane, will cease to operate due to escalating operation costs.

The Northlander will have its final ride on Sept. 28.

Mitchell is concerned that the costs of shipping goods and supplies to the north will

rise after the Northlander makes its final run.

“In terms of freight and fuel, it comes by the regulation style oil tankers,” Mitchell said. “And it comes directly from whichever fuel depot it comes from and ships north. If the freight is stopping before Cochrane, how is that fuel going to be hauled?”

If businesses along the James Bay coast have to have their fuel and supplies shipped by trucks before being put on the Polar Bear Express train, it would be more costly, Mitchell said.

“Further on up the coast, it’s going to be higher.”

The closure of the Northlander also means medical patients attending appointments down south will have to take the bus or airplane to reach their destination, which has its obstacles.

“Community members have always verbally complained about the difficulty with buses and airplanes, especially with their mobility stage,” Mitchell said. “The train has always been an ideal mode of transportation for them that’s comfortable.

There’s easier access for a wheelchair and there’s more room to move than a bus.”

And if they have to take a plane, it would have financial impacts on the northern health benefit programs.

Mitchell is also concerned that the sale of the Polar Bear Express, which runs from Cochrane to Moosonee,

could lead to higher costs.

Since 2003, the Ontario government has invested more than $439 million in ONTC to make it economically viable. The investment led to an improvement in the Polar Bear Express schedule and subsidized the train service to offset the ticket and freight costs.

But if the ONTC is sold to a private investor, Mitchell is concerned the new owner will have to raise prices to offset the operations costs.

“Right now, we’ve been told the train will be still operate, but the government never indicated to us in writing or verbally that there will be subsidy that will continue,” Mitchell said. “How long is that train going to last even though they say it will continue to operate, and what price are we, Moosonee and the north, going to pay?”

Additionally, the sale of Ontera, a telecommunications company that is often the sole provider of Internet, telephone and other communication services in the north, could lead to escalating costs for community members, Mitchell said.

“It’s not very cheap up here, as anywhere in the NAN territory,” Mitchell said. “ Depending on who the potential buyer is, what are we going to pay? Whoever buys is not going to be subsidized either.

“That’s what we’re also concerned about in the long term.”

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New law school looks to open legal world to northern First Nations Shawn Bell Wawatay News

Less than one year from opening Canada’s newest law school, Lakehead Law’s founding dean is adamant that the school will bring more Aboriginal people of northern Ontario into the legal profession.

The new school will also graduate lawyers with a solid understanding of Aboriginal culture and the importance of Aboriginal law in the Canadian legal context, according to Lee Stuesser, the founding dean who sat down with Wawatay one week after settling into his office in Thunder Bay. Stuesser cites an array of courses, special services and perks designed by the school to support Aboriginal people studying law while also training non-Aboriginal lawyers to work with First Nations. The list includes small class sizes, personal instruction, courses on Aboriginal culture and worldview, and a promise to include Aboriginal issues into every core course, where relevant.

But the main attraction may very well be the school’s unique geographic location in northern Ontario, surrounded by First Nations struggling to deal with many of the same legal issues that the students study.

“There was a real need for a law school to serve the north, and to serve the people of the north,” Stuesser said. “You can build a law school just like any other law school, but its not

necessarily going to serve the people.”

Lakehead’s law school - the first new Canadian law school in 42 years - officially opens its doors to its 55-person inaugural class in September 2013.

And with an application deadline of Nov. 1, 2012, students looking to be part of that first class have little time left to get their applications together.

The law school has been in the works for nearly a decade, although the plans were put on hold when the provincial government put a moratorium on new schools in 2008. That moratorium was lifted and in July 2011 Ontario announced funding of $1.5 million to revamp an old high school in Thunder Bay, as well as $800,000 in funding per year to operate the school.

At the time of the announcement, Ontario’s minister of training, colleges and universities John Milloy said the school is intended to deal with a shortage of lawyers in rural and northern Canada.

“Students who leave the north and head south are not coming back, so we’re addressing some of the geographic challenges,” Milloy said in 2011.

Stuesser expressed similar sentiments when discussing the new school, saying that residents in small communities across northern Canada are experiencing a “real problem with access to justice.”

“People need lawyers, they need legal advice, so if we can

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Thunder Bay’s PACI building is being coverted in Lakehead University’s new law school, the first new law school in Canada in 42 years. have people who are prepared to live and work in northern communities, hopefully that will provide people with better access to the legal advice they need,” Stuesser said.

As for Aboriginal applicants, the school has a separate application stream for candidates from a First Nation or Metis community.

Stuesser said Lakehead’s law school will be the only law school in Canada to offer a first-year course on Aboriginal culture and worldview, and the only school to dedicate an entire second-year course to Aboriginal and treaty law.

He said that beside those core courses, the curriculum includes Aboriginal examples into nearly every aspect of law.

“For example, I teach criminal law, and one of the key things you need to know in

criminal law is the issue of Aboriginal sentencing and restorative justice,” Stuesser said. “In other words we’re going to be incorporating these issues into all of our core courses.”

And while Stuesser said the curriculum and focuses of the school will set it apart from other law schools in Canada, the biggest reason that he believes First Nations and Metis students can succeed at Lakehead is due to the school’s small size.

“We will know you, and we will support you,” Stuesser said. “You will know your professors, there will be small classes. That is a wonderful environment to learn in, for anyone. I think that is our biggest thing – this can be a very friendly, small place.”

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AFN holding self-sufficient gathering on education Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Deputy Grand Chief Goyce Kakegamic is calling for a focus on cultural diversity and the philosophy of lifelong learning at an upcoming Assembly of First Nations education conference.

“Part of the national strategy really has to highlight the cultural diversity of First Nations and ref lect the philosophy of lifelong learning, not just the academics of education,” Kakegamic said in an e-mail. “AFN can write any vision they wish but if they don’t push and support community ground work at the grassroots level, it will not move ahead.”

The Chiefs Assembly on Education is being held from Oct. 2-4 in Ottawa, as mandated during the 2012 AFN Annual General Assembly.

Kakeegamic said the conference comes at a critical time for NAN. “The Harper government is planning new education legislation that will impact the education delivered in our communities,” Kakegamic said.

“We need to ensure that this new legislation does not replace self-governance in education in which NAN First Nations have been involved in for over 10 years.”

Kakegamic said the conference would provide an opportunity for First Nations to create a unity of purpose regard-

ing education services.

“We must unite with other First Nations across Canada to advocate for appropriate funding and education services to ensure our youth have every opportunity to realize their dreams and live successful lives,” Kakegamic said.

AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo said that in moving forward, education is a key element for success.

“First Nations leaders established education as a key priority, with our ultimate goal being First Nations control of First Nations education.”

– National Chief Shawn

A-in-chut Atleo “First Nations leaders established education as a key priority, with our ultimate goal being First Nations control of First Nations education,” said Atleo. “Our direction forward must address the treaty right to education, First Nation jurisdiction over education, fairness and equity in funding and resources to support language and cultural instruction.”

Atleo noted that due to the young Aboriginal demographic, getting First Nations education right is crucial for the future of the entire country.

“First Nations are the youngest and fastest growing segment of the population,” he said. “Their future is Canada’s future.”

While the federal government recently announced new schools for Pikangikum and Fort Severn, a 2011 AFN survey found that 219 First Nation communities indicated the need for a new school, with 70 per cent of the 219 communities having waited for more than five years for a new school and 13 per cent having waited for more than 20 years.

“First Nation schools and infrastructures require predictable, adequate and stable funding, supported by strong First Nations systems, delivering a curriculum that respects our rights, our languages and identities and strengthens the fabric of our families and communities,” Atleo said.

Atleo said the AFN has been pressing its case over the past three years with every level of government, with corporate Canada, with civil society and internationally.

“Now through national coordination, we can deliver on the path forward fully respecting and supportive of the differences of regions, treaty areas and the ultimate autonomy of First Nations,” Atleo said. “We can deliver change and we will do so by working together and fully respecting one another.”

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Aboriginal Artworks Group of Northern Ontario (AAGNO) Presents Special Aboriginal Fine Arts & Crafts Gift Show & Sale “In collaboration with the Rendezvous 2012 Conference”

October 11th – October 13th, 2012 at Victoriaville Center, Thunder Bay, Ontario Come one, come all to see Authentic Aboriginal Fine Artworks of our Northern Ontario’s talented Aboriginal people’s creations.

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Beadwork Wood Carvings Handmade Snowshoes Christmas Ornaments Birchbark Artworks

People of a Feather (documentary, 90 min.)

Directed by Joel Heath (Inuit)

Photos courtesty of Biindigaate Indigenous Film Festival

Featuring footage from seven winters in the Arctic, People of a Feather explores the Inuit’s past, present and future cultural relationship with the eider duck on the Blecher Islands in Hudson Bay. Recreations of traditional life are juxtaposed with modern life in Sanikiluaq, as both people and Elders face the challenges posed by changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams powering eastern North America. (See ad on page 9 for screen times.)

And Much, Much More!!!

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Directed by Jeff Dorn (Walpole Island First Nation)

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For centuries, Europeans ran the North American tobacco trade, but the Indians are taking it back. Today, the Mohawk Nation controls 50 per cent of the tobacco trade in eastern Canada. But with governments trying to stop them from selling tax-free cigarettes to non-Natives, Native tobacco entrepreneurs must constantly navigate through intricate federal and provincial laws in order to run their lucrative business.

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ilm Festival to digenous films Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Two documentary films shot over a period of years kick off this year’s Biindigaate Film Festival, to be held Sept. 27-30 in Thunder Bay. One of them documents the tobacco trade from a First Nations perspective, while the other explores Inuit history in the high arctic.

“They rode along with the Mohawks, getting an inside scoop on what’s going on with the smoke traders,” said Jamie Monastyrski, committee member and spokesperson with the Biindigaate Film Festival, about the 51-minute film Smoke Traders. “It’s filmed over three years and it tells the story of the tobacco trade from the Native perspective.”

People of a Feather, a 90-minute documentary film

by Inuit filmmaker Joel Heath, features footage from seven winters in the Arctic during an exploration of the Inuit’s past, present and future cultural relationship with the eider duck on the Blecher Islands in Hudson Bay. 2010 Genie award-winning filmmaker Lisa Jackson’s 15-minute drama Parkdale will also be screened during the festival, just before Smoke Traders.

“On Playback Magazine, she

was one of the top 10 filmmakers to watch in 2012,” Monastyrski said. “Not Aboriginal filmmakers, but Canadian filmmakers.”

“We’re going four days this year — it’s a platform for amazing indigenous artists.

- Jamie Monastyrski Biindigaate Indigenous Film Festival

Jackson and six of the other filmmakers are scheduled to be in attendance at their films, including Smoke Traders director Jeff Dorn, Every Emotion Costs director Darlene Naponse, Liar director Adam Garnet Jones, Inheritance director Joe E. Ironstand and local directors Jason Hunter and Henry Beardy, who both have two films in the festival.

“The short film is a shorter version of Crossroads, but I put this one as two brothers,” Beardy said about his sevenminute drama, Times Up. “As a kid, he always wanted to play a guitar so I guess the shedevil came in and gave him the skills.”

Beardy’s other film is a sixminute documentary, Keeping

Part of My Tradition, which he worked on with Zack Tait.

“He has a place out here to hunt past the Norwester,” Beardy said. “I let him tell his story about his hunting experiences and why he does it.”

Hunter’s films are Bannock, an eight-minute documentary, and Awakening, a four-minute music video.

“Whether you enjoy hard hitting documentaries, dramatic features or eclectic and experimental films, the film festival this year has something for everyone,” Monastyrski said.

“We’re going four days this year — it’s a platform for amazing indigenous artists. There’s going to be visual art, film and there is going to be music as well.”

The Gala Opening at Definitely Superior Art Gallery on Thursday evening will feature music by Robin Ranger and Classic Roots, and An Evening at the Foundry on Friday will feature entertainment by Jason Burnstick and music by Nick Sherman.

“And on Saturday, for the first time there will be live script reading from a Metis filmmaker, Adam Garnet Jones,” Monastyrski said. “That’s free and open to the public.”

A complete schedule of events and films is available online at biindigaate.ca

SEPTEMBER

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THURS, SEPT 27

SAT, SEPT 29

2-4 PM – TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY OPENING

11 AM – FOR ALL AGES

At the Thunder Bay Art Gallery. (open to public)

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7 PM – INUIT TALES

The Report Card

Amaqqut Nunaat (The Country of Wolves)

1 PM – EXPERIMENTAL + ECLECTIC

Es-ts-i-ni

I Lost My Shadow

1 PM – THE ULUIT

Tik-A-Lee-Kick

People of a Feather

The Uluit: Champions of the North

Kwoni (Stop)

3 PM – LIVE SCRIPT READING

Moving Slowly

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SUN, SEPT 30

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9 PM – GALA OPENING At Definitely Superior Art Gallery. Highlighting seven local and regional artists.

Music by Robin Ranger and Classic Roots.

Refreshments provided.

“Wild Medicine” with Métis filmmaker Adam Garnet Jones.

(Free, open to public)

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5 PM – MAIDEN VOYAGES

FRI, SEPT 28

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL MEET AND GREET At Definitely Superior Art Gallery with representatives Marilyn McIntosh and Sara Roque.

Bring your project ideas and questions!

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Bannock

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Always Becoming

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3 PM – HEALING FROM LEGACY

Standing Bear

5 PM – COLLISION OF CULTURES

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The Indian Word

Inheritance

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Parkdale

7 PM – EMOTIONS IN MOTION

10 PM – AN EVENING AT THE FOUNDRY

Woodcarver

Robert’s Paintings

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Liar

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Times Up

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Maiden Indian

Smoke Traders

Awena Kena (Who Are You)

Keeping Part of My Tradition

Mikomiing

7 PM – STRENGTH + STRUGGLE

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Cowboys, Indians and Education: Regenerating Secwepemc Culture and Language

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Two teenage boys who have grown up like brothers go about their lives in the comfortable claustrophobia of an isolated Alaskan town. Early one morning, on a seal hunt with another teenager, an argument between the three boys quickly escalates into a tragic accident. Bonded by their dark secret, the two best friends are forced to create one fabrication after another in order to survive.

Kimi

Horse You See

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On the Ice (feature, 96 min.)

Directed by Andrew Okpeaha Maclean (Iñupiat)

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Here I Am

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Returning to her community to attend the funeral of her mother who emotionally abandoned her, Quilla explores life on the reserve, past relationships and finds out what drove her away. Shot in Atikameksheng Anishnawbek (Whitefish Lake), an Ojibway community in northern Ontario.

Algonquin

SpongeBob SquarePants

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Every Emotion Costs (feature, 93 min.)

Directed by Darlene Naponse (Whitefish Lake First Nation)

27–30

PA R A M O U N T T H E AT R E – 2 4 C O U R T S T S .

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Rugged Guy

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Every Emotion Costs

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With Jason Burnstick (Juno Nominee and CAMA Award Winning Artist) and Nick Sherman.

9 PM - FOR MATURE AUDIENCES

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Mary

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The Gift

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Diez Veces Venceremos (We Shall Overcome Ten Times)

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7 PM – NORTHERN TALES Awakening

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On the Ice

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9 PM – CLOSING PRAYERS

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Youth develop leadership skills through ‘Creator’s game’ Lacrosse camp in Thunder Bay first of its kind in a youth detention centre Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

Aboriginal youth detained in Thunder Bay had the chance to develop leadership and life skills through a weeklong lacrosse development camp.

Professional lacrosse players from the National Lacrosse League brought their skills and lessons to the Justice Ronald Lester Youth Centre, where they spent the week of Sept. 10-14 training with the youth.

The idea is to develop leadership skills in the youth so that when they are released, they can bring the sport of lacrosse to their community.

“It’s through sport and play that could help the youth realize that they have the potential to be anything,” said Lauren Simeson, a support and development officer with Right to Play.

Simeson said the program also aims to build relationships between the remote community intervention workers and the youth.

“So that when they are released, they have the skills through lacrosse and leadership sessions and bring the sport of lacrosse to their community and connect with people through the sport, and they have a person to go to,” she said.

The Lacrosse for Development camp was developed in partnership with Right to Play, the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS), the National Lacrosse League and the Thunder Bay Lacrosse League.

Right to Play recently ran similar programs in 45 First Nations communities in the province, with about 20 of those being in northern Ontario. This was the first time the program was held in a youth correctional facility.

MCYS regional manager Randy Sandvik said they

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Youth held in the Justice Ronald Lester Youth Centre in Thunder Bay took part in a lacrosse development camp during the week of Sept. 10-14. The program is aimed at developing leadership and life skills so that the youth may start their own programs in their own communites. approached Right to Play because it supports one of the goals of the ministry.

“The goal of the ministry to reduce reoffending of young people by providing tools and leadership skills involving them with positive adults,” he said.

Sandvik said research has shown that by providing youth with positive role models and a sports outlet, they become less inclined to commit crimes.

One of the youth involved in the program said he played lacrosse once before and found himself hooked this time around thanks to the challenge of the sport. And he had fun playing with his peers and developing the technical and leadership skills of lacrosse.

“I get to know them a bit better through playing,” the

youth, who could not be named in accordance with the Youth Criminal Justice Act, said. “We had fun just talking and laughing,” He said initially some of the

take part in basketball or football despite their skill level.

“I would tell them, it’s okay, just play,” he said.

The youth said he did not see the big deal about the Lacrosse

“When they are released, they have the skills through lacrosse and leadership sessions and bring the sport of lacrosse to their community and connect with people through the sport.”

- Lauren Simeson

youth did not want to take part but once they were told how much fun it was by other youth, they joined.

“Now we see them having fun and getting good,” he said.

The youth said he has never seen himself in a leadership role, though he has pushed the other residents in the past to

for Development camp at first.

“But I found it surprising that people are coming in to work with us and being in facilities,” he said.

The program has helped him develop skills to find resources in his community, and he hopes to organize a sports program once he returns.

“If I get the help from Right to Play,” he said. “I would love to play down there (at home).”

Simeson said Right to Play has an office in Thunder Bay and local workers in each community called community mentors, who are hired locally to help with the program. The community mentors will be on hand to help the youth with their initiatives once they return to their communities.

Simeson said the sport of lacrosse was chosen because of its indigenous origins.

Allan Downey, a PhD student and professor at Wilfred Laurier University, was on hand for the program with Right to Play. He is writing his dissertation on lacrosse in First Nations communities.

“They call it the Creator’s

game because from the very beginning of time, but it’s been played in this country for thousands of years by indigenous people,” said Downey, a member of Nak’azdli First Nation in British Columbia.

Lacrosse has been played across Canada and all the way down to Mexico prior to European contact. Non-Natives began to take up the sport in 1884 in Montreal.

“It’s just great to see that we’re re-empowering our youth through indigenous elements,” he said. “That’s what this game provides. It’s something we can celebrate together.”

The Lacrosse for Development camp is a one-time program in youth correctional facilities but Right to Play and MCYS hope to extend the partnership in the future.

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“ᐅ ᑎ ᔑ ᓂ ᑲ ᑕ ᓇ ᐊ ᐧ ᒪᐣᑐ ᐅᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ ᒪᐊᐧᐨ ᐃᑯ ᓂᐢᑕᑦ ᑲᑕᑲᐧᐠ ᐱᒪᑎᓯᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐱᐊᔭᒪᑲᐣ ᐅᐁᐧ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ, ᔕᑯᐨ ᐊᔕ ᑭᒋᒥᔑᓇᐧ ᒥᑕᓱᒥᑕᓇ ᑕᓱᔭᑭᐃᐧᐣ ᐅᒪ ᐃᓀᑫ ᐅᑭᐱᐅᒋ ᒣᑕᐊᐧᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ ᑕᐅᓂ, ᑲᐅᐣᑕᑲᓀᓯᐨ ᓇᐠᐊᑊᑎ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᐊᐧᐠ ᐁᐧᑎ ᓀᐣᑲᐱᐦᐊᓄᐠ. ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧᐣ ᑭᐱᒣᑕᐊᐧᑌ ᒥᓯᐁᐧ ᑲᓇᑕ ᐊᐦᑭᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐱᓂᐡ

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Peacefully, on the night of August 31, 2012, Donna Mary Pace ( Swami Radhakrishnananda) passed away at the age of 63 from ovarian cancer, in Spokane, WA. Swami Radhakrishnananda is survived and will be sadly missed by her devoted daughter Alicia Pace and son-in-law Daniel Seguin; her mother Helen Pace; and her brother and sister, Greg Pace and Elaine Pace.

We have created a webpage with her obituary, photos, memorial information and a place to leave condolences.

www.yasodhara.org/swami-radhakrishnananda

ᐁᐧᑎ ᔕᐊᐧᓄᐠ ᒣᐠᓯᑯ ᑲᒪᐧᔦ ᑕᑯᔑᓄᐊᐧᐨ ᐁᐧᒥᑎᑯᔓᐊᐧᐠ. ᐁᑲᐧ ᐱᓂᐡ ᑫᐃᐧᓇᐊᐧ ᐁᐧᒥᑎᑯᔓᐊᐧᐠ ᑭᔭᓂᒣᑕᐁᐧᐊᐧᐠ 1884 ᑲᔭᑭᐊᐧᓂᐠ ᐃᒪ ᒪᐣᐠᕑᐃᐊᓫ. “ᑭᒋᓀᐣᑕᑲᐧᐣ ᐁᐊᐧᐸᒥᐣᑕᐧ ᐊᐣᑎ ᑫᑭᔭᓄᒋ ᒪᐡᑲᐃᐧᑲᐸᐃᐧᐦᐃᑕᐧ ᑭᑐᐡᑲᑎᓯᒥᓇᓂᐠ ᑲᔭᐸᑕᑭᐣ ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᓇᐠ ᑲᑭᐱᐅᐣᒋᒪᑲᑭᐣ ᑫᑯᓇᐣ,” ᑭᐃᑭᑐ. “ᒥᐦᐅᐁᐧ ᐁᔑᒥᑭᐁᐧᒪᑲᐠ ᒣᑕᐁᐧᐃᐧᐣ. ᒥᑕᐡ ᑲᔦ ᐃᒪ ᑫᑭᐅᐣᒋ ᒪᒪᐃᐧ

ᒋᑭᑲᒥᑭᓯᐊᐧᑫᔭᑭᐸᐣ.” ᐅᐁᐧ ᐸᑲᐦᐊᑐᐦᐁᐃᐧ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑫᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᑭᐸᑭᑎᓂᑲᑌᐠ ᐯᔑᑲᐧ ᐁᑕ ᐃᔑᒋᑲᓄᐊᐧᐣ ᐃᒪ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓯᐃᐧ ᑭᐸᐦᐅᑐᐃᐧᑲᒥᑯᐠ ᐁᑲᐧ ᐃᐧᐣ ᔕᑯᐨ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐅᒣᑕᐁᐧᐦᐃᑯᐃᐧᓂᐊᐧ ᒥᓇ ᐅᑭᒪᐃᐧᐣ ᑲᐅᒋᐊᓴᐧᐸᒪᐨ ᐊᐊᐧᔑᔕᐠ ᒥᓇ ᐅᐡᑲᑎᓴᐠ ᐅᐸᑯᓭᐣᑕᓇᐊᐧ ᒥᓇᐊᐧ ᒋᔭᓂᑫᑐᒋᑲᑌᐠ ᐅᐁᐧ ᐁᐧᑎ ᐊᓂᓂᑲᐣ.

NOTICE TO PATTHEW ALBERT QUEQUISH (D.O.B. 8/28/1980): Stephanie Lynn Mattinas has petitioned Hennepin County District Court to change the name of Mystery Morning Rain Mattinas-Quequish, a minor child, to Mystery Morning Rain Mattinas. A hearing will be held in this matter before the Honorable Robert A. Blaeser, District Court Judge, on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 9:30 am at the Hennepin County Government Center, 300 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. If you fail to appear at the hearing, default will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the petition. Requests to appear by phone should be directed to Hennepin County Court Administration: (612) 348-3164. For other questions, you may contact Ronald Walters, attorney for Stephanie Mattinas, at (320) 532-7798.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

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Thunder Bay prostitution getting increased focus More funding needed to restart drop-in program Stephanie Wesley Wawatay News

The issue of prostitution in Thunder Bay, long hidden underground, is starting to receive increased attention from a number of organizations in the city.

Lana Ray, Director of Policy and Research at the Ontario Native Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association (ONWA) in Thunder Bay, said that the issue of prostitution in the city is still emerging and that from an academic standpoint, there is not a lot of information about it.

In response to the lack of information, ONWA is preparing to release a report on the topic based on a focus group with 27 Aboriginal women who were residing in Thunder Bay, most of whom were involved in prostitution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;ONWA really started to address sex-trafficking in the region in the last year or so,â&#x20AC;?

Ray said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We know thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much documented on it, but Aboriginal organizations in the city would give a similar response that there is a high rate of prostitution in our community.â&#x20AC;?

While there have been reports done on Aboriginal prostitution in Winnipeg, southern Ontario and Vancouver, ONWAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming report will be the first of its kind in northwestern Ontario. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We at ONWA acknowledge that many Aboriginal women are constrained by larger, structural issues. Colonization has an effect on the choices,â&#x20AC;?

Ray said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prostitutes live in a realm of sexual exploitation, which we view as sextrafficking because they really have very limited options. So is that really informed consent?â&#x20AC;?

Ray said that many of the women who engage with ONWA and utilize their programs do not come out and say that they are being sexuallyexploited. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of them express that they have no choices; that they prostitute because they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a choice,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of them live in fear of not having a place to live.â&#x20AC;?

ONWA had been running a drop-in program where many Aboriginal women in the city accessed services, but funding for the program was cut in March 2012. The program was receiving funding from Ontarioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Action Plan, instilled in 2010 after efforts to counter prostitution in the province

became more prevalent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our conversations went along the lines of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;what do you need?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; instead of pressuring them or telling them what they needed,â&#x20AC;? Ray said about the discussions held with the women of the drop-in program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Housing was a big thing that came up a lot. There is already a lack of affordable housing the city.â&#x20AC;?

Ray said that the women in the drop-in program expressed an interest in short-term housing like a safe house where they could go. Ray said that ONWA needs long-term support in terms of housing, along with social programs to help the women.

Nearly all of the women in ONWAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus group spoke of experiencing traumatic childhoods, which often led them into prostitution. Ray said experiences such as those have to be dealt with alongside providing housing for the women.

The women also expressed a desire to leave the sex-trade, Ray said, but many felt they needed life-skills training to give them more options so they would not have to resort to prostitution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The majority of the women in the trade are in engaged in survival sex,â&#x20AC;? Ray said.

Ray said that it would be incredibly beneficial to the public at large and to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;decision makersâ&#x20AC;? if Aboriginal women in the sex-trade were viewed as being sexuallyexploited and placed within the context of trafficking. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One reason that soliciting is still illegal is because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a public nuisance. What is the ideology behind that?â&#x20AC;? Ray asked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To me, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak to looking after the welfare of Aboriginal women on the streets. It actually is women with very limited options in a position where they are being exploited.â&#x20AC;?

Since the drop-in program was cancelled because of the funding cuts, ONWA has been running an outreach program where workers will go out onto the streets and maintain connections as well as hand out supplies to the women.

Ray said that the women often have trust issues, so obtaining long-term funding to keep building a trusting relationship that the women in the sex-trade can rely on is very important. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are looking at continuing our drop-in

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;One reason that soliciting is still illegal is because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a public nuisance. What is the ideology behind that?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lana Ray

program,â&#x20AC;? Ray said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We must ensure programming is available to keep building those relationships in order to have success with helping the women.â&#x20AC;?

Ray said that ONWA is also collaborating with Ontario HIV/AIDS Strategy.

The two entities are in the developmental stages for a committee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are really trying to pool together our knowledge and resources for women,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully we can make a change at policy level as well.â&#x20AC;?

Ray would like the committee to include women who were once involved in the sex-trade because she feels they would be a great resource to the

group as a peer-run group that women could go to. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the drop-in program, we had women there who were involved in the sex-trade before and it really opened up dialogue between the women who are still in the trade,â&#x20AC;? Ray said.

With a committee in the making to deal with the issue of Aboriginal women in the sex-trade and the report on the focus group ready for public release, Ray hopes that the community and its service workers will start to view women who work as prostitutes in a different light. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just so important for whoever has contact with these women, like those in child welfare, health services, law enforcement, to acknowledge that our Aboriginal women, our beautiful Aboriginal women, have intrinsic value,â&#x20AC;? Ray said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It needs to be understood that they come from a situation where they have limited options. The women shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be afraid to get help and they should know that their opinions matter.â&#x20AC;?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

ᐧᐊᐧᐊᑌ ᐊᒋᒧᐧᐃᓇᐣ

Tikinagan Child & Family Services

Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre in Sioux Lookout, Ontario is seeking a

We invite applications for the following jobs, which are open until filled unless a closing date is indicated:

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Executive Director is the senior employee and chief administrative officer of the Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Center (KERC). The Executive Director is responsible for overseeing the day to day operations of its staff and programs. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors.

RESPONSIBILITIES The Key responsibilities include managing the programs and staff of KERC, ensuring proper planning for the programs and services provided by KERC, implementing the policies of KERC and decisions of the Board, maintaining proper communication with the staff, Board and other key partners and managing the resources of KERC. QUALIFICATIONS • The position requires an experienced manager with an expert knowledge of First Nation education systems.

• Administration experience is required including planning of programs and services, coordination of implementation activities, and supervision of staff.

• Experience in preparing reports and making presentations.

• An understanding of planning, monitoring and evaluation practices and processes.

• Knowledge of First Nations education needs and systems • Strong planning, organizational and coordination skills and ability to manage complex projects.

• A demonstrated ability to work with First Nations and culturally sensitive to First Nation issues and the district it serves.

• Self-motivated, organized, able to lead a team of professional staff.

• Excellent interpersonal, communications and computer skills.

• Bachelor of Education degree with minimum 5 years teaching experience preferably in a First Nations community • Fluency in Ojibway, Oji-Cree or Cree is a definite asset SALARY To commensurate with education & experience. KERC offers a comprehensive group insurance & pension plan.

To apply: Please submit a resume, three most recent employment references with written permission to contact, and a covering letter via email to: Eugene Southwind, Finance & Human Resources Officer Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre Email: esouthwind@kerc.ca Closing Date for Applications: September 27, 2012 A detailed job description may be obtained by calling Eugene Southwind at (807) 737-7373 ext 19. An up to date Criminal Reference and Child Abuse Registry check required at time of hiring. *KERC thanks all those who apply; However, only those selected for an interview will be contacted*

SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITY “HEALTH CARE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FIRST NATIONS”

P.O. BOX 1300 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8

Founded by our Chiefs and Elders, Tikinagan continues to focus services and staff positions in the First Nations we serve. We believe our role is to be there in the communities, mentoring young parents, supporting families and protecting children. Our work is guided by the Tikinagan service model – Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin (Everyone working together to raise our children).

Phone: (807) 737-6104 Fax: (807) 737-2969 Toll Free: 1-800-842-0681 Web: www.slfnha.com

Be a Part of Our Vision Our Vision ”We envision our communities as safe, clean places where everyone is respected, people are healthy in the spiritual, physical, mental, emotional and social aspects of their being and where all have access to affordable food and clean water, education, employment, healthy housing, and necessary health services staffed and governed by Anishinabe.”

The Client Services Department, a health program managed by the SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITY is seeking committed individuals for the following positions: Security Worker Laundry Aide Dietary Aide Housekeepers Come and meet with us at our job fair at Jeremiah McKay Kabayshewekamik Hostel at #2 Menoyawin Way on October 29, 2012 from 1 - 3 pm.

Aroland Live-in Foster Parents Bearskin Lake Prevention Services Co-ordinator Cat Lake Family Services Worker, Prevention Services Co-ordinator, Casual Relief Workers, Secretary/Receptionist, Maintenance Worker Deer Lake Family Services Worker Eabametoong (Fort Hope) Family Services Worker, Casual Relief Worker Fort Severn Child Care Worker, Secretary/ Receptionist (full-time, term until Dec. 12, 2012) Kasabonika Family Services Worker, Secretary/ Receptionist, Child Care Worker, Residential Care Worker Keewaywin Prevention Services Co-ordinator, Child Care Worker Kitchenuhmaykoosib (Big Trout Lake) Residential Care Worker, Casual Relief Workers, Secretary/ Receptionist, Kitchen Cook (parttime), Traditional Life Skills Educator (male), Maintenance Worker, Residential Counsellors, Assistant Direct Services Supervisor (group home) Lac Seul Casual Relief Workers Marten Falls Direct Services Supervisor Mishkeegogamang Family Services Worker

Muskrat Dam Maintenance Worker/Janitor (part-time) Neskantaga Family Services Worker, Casual Relief Worker Nibinamik (Summer Beaver) Family Services Worker, Prevention Services Co-ordinator Pikangikum Intake/Investigation Worker, Child Care Workers, Residential Care Worker, Direct Services Supervisor Poplar Hill Prevention Services Co-ordinator, Residential Care Worker Red Lake Family Services Workers (serving Pikangikum), Live-in Foster Parents (serving Pikangikum, 14 days on/14 days off) Sandy Lake Maintenance Worker, Child Care Worker Saugeen Direct Services Supervisor Sioux Lookout Casual Relief Workers, Finance Clerk, Direct Services Supervisor (Intake Unit, Sept. 24 closing date) Slate Falls Casual Relief Workers, Child Care Worker Wapekeka Direct Services Supervisor Weagamow Secretary/Receptionist Webequie Prevention Services Co-ordinator Wunnumin Lake Child Care Worker

For more information about these jobs, you can: • Visit our website, www.tikinagan .org, under “New Jobs” • E-mail hr@tikinagan.org to request details • Call Christina Davis, human resources secretary, at: (807) 737-3466 ext. 2249 or toll-free 1-800-465-3624 NEW WEBSITE FEATURE – Apply for jobs online

www.tikinagan.org SIOUX LOOKOUT FIRST NATIONS HEALTH AUTHORITY Client Services Department HOUSEKEEPER Full Time Employment Internal/External Posting Location: Sioux Lookout, Ontario

Under the direction of the Team Leader (Housekeeping), the Housekeeper is responsible to keep the Hostel and Administration offices at a high standard of cleanliness.

QUALIFICATIONS • Minimum Grade 12 or GED; • Experience in a hospitality field an asset; • Ability to lift 20+ lbs; • Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills; • Possess excellent team building and networking skills; • Familiarity with computers, including databases.

KNOWLEDGE & ABILITY • Ability to communicate in one or more of the First Nations dialects of the Sioux Lookout Zone will be an asset; • Experience and understanding of Native cultural issues, the geographic realities and social conditions within remote Northern First Nation communities; • Innovative problem solving and decision making skills; • Excellent time management and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently; • Must be willing to do shift work.

Please send cover letter, resume, three most recent employment references and an up-to-date Criminal Reference Check with a Search of Vulnerable Persons Screening to: Human Resource Department Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority P.O. Box 1300, 61 Queen Street Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B8 Phone: (807) 737-1802 Fax: (807) 737-2969 Email: Human.Resources@slfnha.com Closing Date: September 28, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.

No resume’s received after that time will be accepted

Need help updating your résumé or curriculum vitae?

The Health Authority wishes to thank all applicants in advance. However, only those granted an interview will be contacted.

Staff will be on site to assist.

Refreshments will be served.

For additional information regarding the Health Authority, please visit our Web-site at www.slfnha.com

Job Opportunity SUNSET WOMEN’S ABORIGINAL CIRCLE Prenatal Support Worker Sunset Women’s Aboriginal Circle is committed to the delivery of a culturally appropriate program based on traditional and modern teachings for Aboriginal women and their families during pregnancy and the first year with the new baby The Prenatal Support Worker will be responsible for the delivery of the Sioux Lookout Prenatal Nutrition Program/Aboriginal Prenatal and Postnatal Support Program.

The Prenatal Support Worker is responsible for carrying out the following: y Develop and deliver support programs. y Ensure that all programs are culturally appropriate and respect traditional Anishinaabe values and teachings y Ensure availability of culturally appropriate resource materials to clients y Liaise and partner with community organizations to ensure effectiveness and accessibility of services for clients y Develop strategies to promote program, increase public awareness and solicit community involvement and participation y Budget quarterly and day to day spending of program funds and use appropriate forms to account for spending y Prepare and present required written reports for SWAC Board of Directors and program funding agency y Develop yearly work plan and ensure adherence to program objectives y Update and complete funding submissions for program annually or as required y Contribute to the on-going development and maintenance of the program site.

Qualifications: y Ability to deliver culturally appropriate programs such as moss bag making, native parenting, regalia making, etc. y Ability to deliver programs such as community kitchen, prenatal nutrition teaching, breastfeeding support, baby food making, lunch & learn, etc. y Knowledge and experience in healthy living during pregnancy and after the birth of a baby y Ability to network and to advocate for clients y Strong organizational skills to maintain files, resource materials and equipment lending y Excellent interpersonal and communication skills y Ability to work independently and to operate budgets y Computer skills include word processing and database y Ability to speak Native language a definite asset y Training in First Aid/CPR y Valid Ontario Driver’s License y CRC including Vulnerable Sector Screening Check Salary: To commensurate with education and experience.

Deadline: Friday, September 28, 2012 at 4:00 p.m.

Please send cover letter, resume and three most recent employment references to: SWAC Hiring Committee Box 341, 26 Second Avenue Sioux Lookout, Ontario P8T 1A5 Fax: 807-737-7031 Email: healthoutreach@knet.ca Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Ojibway/Ojicree Translator Wawatay Native Communications Society (Wawatay) is seeking an energetic, motivated and reliable individual for the position of Ojibway/ Ojicree Translator.

Wawatay is a self-governing, independent community-driven, entrepreneurial native organization dedicated to using appropriate technologies to meet the communication needs of people of Aboriginal ancestry in Northern Ontario, wherever they live. In doing so, its founders intended that Wawatay would serve their communities by preserving, maintaining and enhancing indigenous languages and culture. Wawatay’s mission is to provide media capabilities and content that address the unique needs of the Nishnawbe people.

Reporting to the Business Manager, the Ojibway/Ojicree Translator will work with other translators and staff to translate documents for clients and internal Wawatay products and services. The successful applicant will work with an experienced translator to learn all aspects of the position.

RESPONSIBILITIES: • Translate written documents English documents to Ojicree and/or Ojibway.

• Translate written documents Ojicree and/or Ojibway documents to English.

• Translate editorial content and advertisements for Wawatay print products (Wawatay News, Sagatay, Seven, etc).

• Ensure that completed translations can be delivered in a format compatible with clients computer/printing systems.

• Work with Wawatay Radio Network staff to produce translated voiceovers for public service announcements, news reports, audio files and other related activities.

• Work with Wawatay Multimedia staff to translate and transcribe audio and video files for on-line production.

• Transcribe interviews and other related activities.

• Proofread translations to ensure accuracy, meet newspaper and contract deadlines.

QUALIFICATIONS: • Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills in Ojibway and/ or Oji-Cree and also English.

• Must be proficient working a computer-based work environment and possess excellent keyboarding skills.

• Familiarity with InDesign, Photoshop, Macintosh and Windows based computers are an asset.

• A high degree of initiative, motivation and the ability to observe strict confidentiality is essential.

• Ability to work with little or no supervision is essential.

• Experience in translating documents from either Oji-Cree or Ojibway to English is an asset.

Location: Sioux Lookout, ON Closing date: Friday September 28, 2012, 4:30 PM CST To apply, send a cover letter and resume to: Tabatha Jourdain Wawatay Native Communications Society P.O. Box 1180 Sioux Lookout, ON P8T 1B7 Fax: (807) 737-3224 By email: tabathaj@wawatay.on.ca

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Young mother finds bone marrow donor from across the world Rick Garrick Wawatay News

A bone marrow match has been found for an 18-yearold mother who is in hospital with a rare bone marrow failure disease.

“There is a big sigh of relief,” said Dolores Wawia, grandmother of Taylor Dawn Vermette-Wawia, who first noticed her aplastic anemia symptoms last fall. “She phoned me herself and was crying on the phone. She said ‘Mama, they found seven possible donors.’”

Aplastic anemia is a rare but extremely serious disorder resulting from the failure of bone marrow to produce blood cells. About two to 12 new cases are diagnosed each year per million people.

The disease aff licts both adults and children and may be acquired or inherited, with treatment depending on the patient’s age, severity of the disease and availability of a Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) matched donor.

Although there are about 250,000 identified donors in Canada, Wawia said none of them matched her granddaughter’s HLA. “So they went world-wide and they found seven possible matches,” Wawia said.

“Out of those seven people, they narrowed it down to one donor. And now they’ve got to find that donor.”

Wawia said her granddaughter is looking at having the bone marrow transplant in about a month.

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Taylor Dawn Vermette-Wawia, holding her son, is expecting to receive a bone marrow transplant from an indigenous donor from the other side of the world after she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia this summer after first experiencing symptoms last fall.

“She’s got to get better, and once she’s better to walk around and they don’t medicate her as much, they’ll send her down to Toronto to meet her donor and work from there,” Wawia said. “I am not sure where this donor is from, but it’s not anywhere near North America.”

Wawia said the donor is an indigenous person from a country on the far side of the world.

Alcohol & Drug Counsellor Full Time Permanent Position The Alcohol and Drug Counsellor will provide direct counseling and outreach/preventative services to adults and youth, seeking assistance for chemical abuse, anger management and/or domestic violence problems, and whose actions have resulted in conflict with the law.

Qualifications • Post-Secondary Degree or Diploma in Social Services or Alcohol/ Addictions Counselling, or relevant accredited training combined with 3 years of related work experience • Additional training in Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training, Crisis Intervention, etc. is an asset • Knowledge of Alcoholics Anonymous and 12-step Program Principles • Working knowledge of counseling methods & case management practices • A strong understanding of Aboriginal culture, practices: Ability to speak and write Ojibway, Cree and/or Oji-Cree is an asset • Ability to work as a team member and meet deadlines with minimal supervision • Excellent communication, facilitation skills and experience working with diverse groups • Knowledge of computers and various applications • Able to work flexible hours including occasional evenings and weekends • Must have a Criminal Reference check, including a Vulnerable Sector Screening completed and approved prior to the commencement of employment • Standard First Aid and CPR would be considered an asset • Must possess a valid class “G” driver’s license, and access to a reliable vehicle Responsibilities 1. To follow and adhere to program guidelines.

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6. To provide community education to community members, organizations, and others.

7. To provide liaison with other community programs and services in order to make referrals.

CLOSING DATE: Friday, September 28th, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.

Interested candidates are invited to submit a cover letter, resume and the names of three references with candidate’s written permission to contact the provided references in a sealed marked envelope to the attention of Donald Copenace, Executive Director.

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Vermette-Wawia is currently allowed out of the hospital for two-to-three hours every day after being kept in the hospital since mid-June.

“They’re trying to build up her strength and stamina so they can send her down to Toronto,” Wawia said. “Now they’re withdrawing a lot of the medication they’re giving her and she is able to walk around. She was so swollen before, but the swelling has

gone down.”

Wawia said family members have been watching Vermette-Wawia 24 hours a day after she walked out of the hospital due to the effects of her medications.

“Her partner, my son and her mom have been doing shift work to stay with her,” Wawia said.

Wawia said the doctors didn’t know what was wrong with Vermette-Wawia at first, but in mid-July they made the aplastic anemia diagnosis.

“The platelets are not developing in her (bone marrow)” Wawia said. “‘You’ll need a bone marrow transplant,’ is what they told her.

‘You better get your siblings tested.’”

But Vermette-Wawia’s brother was not a suitable match, so her information was sent to the OneMatch Stem Cell and Marrow Network, which is responsible for finding and matching volunteer donors to patients who require stem cell and bone marrow transplants.

Wawia encourages First Nations people to join the OneMatch network to provide a larger base of possible bone marrow donors for future First Nation patients.

The Canadian Blood Services is currently seeking 17 to 35-year-old Aboriginal males to join the OneMatch network.

Vermette-Wawia’s mother is Lakota Sioux from Saskatchewan and her father is a Gull Bay band member.

Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre in Sioux Lookout, Ontario is seeking a LITERACY SPECIALIST The Literacy Specialist will work with district communities as part of the First Nation Student Success Program (FNSSP) and is responsible for providing expert advice and in-school support to teachers and administrators in the area of literacy.

RESPONSIBILITIES • Provide expert advice in the development of programs and literacy initiatives across the Sioux Lookout District.

• Develop and maintain effective linkages with First Nations school administrators, teachers and parents • Participate on committees and working groups within the District related to improving literacy • Develop strategies, approaches and supporting materials to assist teachers and administrators improve the teaching of literacy within their schools • Provide information/support to schools with regards to literacy programs including advice, consultation and program development support • Provide guidance and expertise to communities and administrators in the development of literacy plans as part of their school success planning process • Develop and sustain positive relationships with a broad range of education resources and stakeholders • Coordinate and provide expertise in the development of District-wide literacy policies, strategies and implementation plans.

• Develop and deliver training for teachers and administrators.

• Conduct regular visits to communities to monitor issues, support implementation strategies and monitor progress.

QUALIFICATIONS • Teaching experience at the elementary level • Bachelor of Education degree • Expertise in the development, monitoring and implementation of literacy programs and services • Experience as advisor to teachers on teaching of literacy • Sound and current knowledge of current trends and research in literacy • Project management experience • A demonstrated ability to work with First Nations or in a culturally diverse community setting • Self-motivated, organized, able to lead a team of professional staff • Excellent interpersonal and computer skills • Fluency in Ojibway, Oji-Cree or Cree an asset • Able to travel extensively to district First Nations communities To apply: Please submit a resume, three employment references with written permission to contact, and a covering letter to: Eugene Southwind, Human Resources Officer Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre email: esouthwind@kerc.ca Criminal Reference and Child Abuse Registry check required at time of hiring.

Closing date for applications: October 4, 2012 at 4:00pm Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre thanks all those that apply, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

ONTARIO FIRST NATIONS TECHNICAL SERVICES CORPORATION EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Contract Position to March 31, 2013

The mandate of the Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation (OFNTSC) is to provide technical and enhanced advisory services to all First Nations in Ontario. The OFNTSC requires the services of an Administrative Assistant. This is a contract position until March 31, 2013 located in the Toronto or New Credit office. Under the direction of the OFNTSC Emergency Planning Public Information Officer, the Administrative Assistant will be mainly responsible for collection of First Nation emergency plans, data entry and contact with First Nations and Emergency Planning Community Advisors.

DUTIES: • May have to attend OFNTSC Phase 2 Emergency Planning Training Sessions.

• Liaise with Emergency Planning Community Advisors and/or participating communities for the collection of emergency plans.

• Receive, document and track First Nation emergency plans.

• Maintain and update database for First Nations emergency plans.

• Direct First Nation’s requiring assistance to the appropriate sources for assistance and/or independently answer their questions regarding emergency plans.

• Maintain a good network of contacts amongst the diverse client base of the OFNTSC. • Photocopy, collate and distribute various documents.

STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS: • High School Diploma or Equivalent; • Public relations skills with the ability to deal tactfully with the public and to exercise good judgment in appraising situations and making decisions.

• Must have good project management skills.

• Ability to use computers for Word, Excel, and other programs.

• Strong analytical, evaluation and assessment skills.

• Must be self motivated with extremely good communication skills.

• Possess a valid Ontario Drivers License and be willing to travel.

• Preference given to First Nations persons.

CLOSING DATE:

Friday, October 5, 2012, 4:30 p.m. (EST)

Please mark very clearly on the envelope “Administrative Assistant-Emergency Planning” and Email, Mail/Fax your Resume to: Brian Staats, CRSP, Operations Manager Ontario First Nations Technical Services Corporation 111 Peter Street, Suite 606 Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2H1 bstaats@ofntsc.org We thank all applications, however only those receiving an interview will be contacted.

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Walkway named after long-time health care workers Shawn Bell Wawatay News

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Marten Falls member earns Queens’ Diamond Jubilee medal Submitted story Chief Warrant Officer Kenneth G. Frost, formerly of Pagwa River and a member of the Marten Falls First Nation, was awarded the Queens Diamond Jubilee Medal by the President of the Canadian Aboriginal Veterans and Serving Members Association on Sept. 8 at a ceremony at the Royal Canadian Legion in Armstrong, BC. Frost has served 30 years in the Canadian Army including two tours in an Airborne Role with the Canadian Airborne Regiment. A judo athlete and coach for many years and an excellent role model, he also worked as a Peace Officer for 14 years after retirement from the military.

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A corridor between the Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win health centre and the Jeremiah McKay Kabayshewekamik hostel has been named after Sam and Madeline Crane.

In a ceremony on Sept. 5, Sioux Lookout First Nation Health Authority board of directors chair John Cutfeet explained that Same and Madeline Crane devoted many hours of their lives providing health services in the Sioux Lookout area.

The following excerpt is from the speech given by Cutfeet at the ceremony.

“Sam and Madeline started working at the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital in 1949, Sam in maintenance and Madeline in laundry. Both were present for the official ribbon cutting of the official opening of the Sioux Lookout Zone Hospital.

“During the summer of 1951, Sam and Madeline moved to Osnaburgh and worked in the nursing station. Sam and Madeline moved back to the area, first to Hudson and then to Sioux Lookout in 1960.

“In 1972, Sam and Madeline were hired to manage the Sioux Lookout Zone Hostel where they lived and worked until 1981.

“Sam and Madeline were our connection to health care, so it is an honour and privilege and highly appropriate to name the connecting link in their honour.”

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Concert to tell history of Fort William Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

A Thunder Bay musician is set to perform with the Thunder Bay symphony orchestra on Oct. 19 with songs about the history of the city.

Rodney Brown, who grew up in Thunder Bay, said he has done some detailed research on the history of the region while composing songs for his latest album, Fort William, which is to be released at the concert.

“All the songs tell stories,” Brown said. “There’s one song about Williams’ relationship with his Cree wife, and…the demise of Fort William.”

Brown said he has always been interested in how the fur trade is part of the first contact era between First Nations and Europeans in the region and how the two cultures got along

at the time.

“I’m fascinated by the fur trade and developing the boundaries of Canada, not by battles, but by making alliances with the Ojibway and the Cree,” Brown said.

“I’m also interested in that it gives me a glimpse what it was like for First Nations before Europeans came.”

The new album and the concert will feature performances by drum group Thunder Mountain Singers.

“I’ve worked with the symphony before, and I really wanted to have the drummers and fiddler and the piper,” he said.

Brown has played professionally for more than 40 years and previously did workshops in Webequie, Kasabonika, Fort Hope, Big Trout Lake and Lansdowne House.

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Sandy Lake youth run for diabetes Lenny Carpenter Wawatay News

Alex Fiddler of Sandy Lake First Nation was impressed by the turnout for the North West Company’s Run for Diabetes event on Sept. 15.

“We were quite surprised how many participated,” Fiddler, the Brighter Futures coordinator for the First Nation, said. “We didn’t expect that many people to come on down.

The atmosphere was very good downtown.”

The Run for Diabetes had more than 100 people take part, either running or walking in a 5-kilometre (5K), 2.5K or a kid’s fun run track. Participants ranged from six to 65 years old.

“Parents pushing their babies and toddlers in a stroller also took part in the run,” Gary Manoakeesic, Sandy Lake’s diabetes prevention coordinator, said.

Organized by Fiddler, Manoakeesic, diabetes and health worker Starsky Goodman, and members of

the North West Company, the Run for Diabetes was aimed at promoting a healthy lifestyle and raising awareness about diabetes in the community.

After a study conducted from 1993-1995 on more than 700 community members, Sandy Lake was ranked first in Canada and third in the world in the number of diabetes cases per capita.

Manoakeesic said the high rate arose from the high cost of healthy foods on reserve combined with the sedentary lifestyle most community members took up after settling in the community and away from the traditional lifestyle.

“We were in the process of not doing anything at that time because a lot of people were on the verge of change from old ways because of technology,” Manoakeesic said. “The change was so fast that we forgot all the stuff like being active and doing outdoor work.”

The introduction of technology that helped to bypass hard labour as

well as TV, video games as entertainment contributed to the lethargic mentality.

“Running would be a good sport and educating the people on how important it is to go outside and be active,” Manoakeesic said. “Back in the day, they stopped doing that and got sick in the process.”

The North West Company’s regional manager also took part in the run. Local Northern store manager Tim Roach helped to co-organize the event and provided grapes, oranges, apples and bananas to the participants following the run.

Participants were also given t-shirts and medallions.

Having moved to the community last May, Roach said the run allowed him and other Northern store workers to acquaint themselves with the community.

“I loved it,” Roach said of the run. “The community here is fantastic. I can’t say enough about it. I really enjoy being a part of the community right now.”

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Roach was surprised at the number of participants.

“There were a lot of people doing the 5K,” he said. “I was pretty shocked.”

This is the first Run for Diabetes event sponsored by the North West Company.

Sandy Lake began organizing its annual run 10 years ago.

Fiddler said he hopes the eclectic mix of people, including the older participants, will inspire youth to be more active while Manoakeesic said he hopes the runs will continue throughout the years.

“Hopefully in the long run, we help prevent the younger generation from getting diabetes,” he said.

Photos submitted by Lisa Roach

Top: More than 100 community members took part in the Run for Diabetes.

Right: A young participant holds his medallion and munches on a post-run snack following the run.

Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin Everyone working together to raise our children

Rae honoured for leadership

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former chief who helped establish and lead Tikinagan Child and Family Services has received the agency’s Oneesh Tam Key Award for 2012.

Board chairman Harvey Kakegamic and executive director Ernest Beck presented the award to Saggius Rae of Deer Lake First Nation at the Tikinagan annual chiefs assembly, Aug. 23.

The award, a small paddle painted in the Woodlands style, is presented annually to someone who has played an important role in the development of Tikinagan. Oneesh Tam Key is translated from Oji-Cree as: “Someone who sits in front of a boat or canoe guiding the way; others follow the direction given by the one sitting in the front,” Kakegamic explained at the assembly, in North Spirit Lake First Nation.

Rae, now 59, was a young chief for Deer Lake in 1984 when he travelled to Kitchenuhmaykoosib for a meeting with other Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) chiefs. They passed a resolution to create Tikinagan.

“I saw the vision of having our own jurisdiction – not just for education and resources, but I saw children being taken care of by their own people,” Rae says.

“If children were taken away (from their families), we wouldn’t see them again, ever.

The vision, the dream, was to take over our own child care.”

Rae was asked to be on a committee that would do the work needed to make this dream a reality, and he served as one of Tikinagan’s early board members. “We had to do a lot of research and travel to communities,” he recalls. “We went to the

Saggius Rae, left, accepts the 2012 Oneesh Tam Key Award from Tikinagan board chairman Harvey Kakegamic and executive director Ernest Beck.

West Coast to ask B.C. Native chiefs and child care workers what they did there.”

Tikinagan had its own staff and was providing services by 1985, but it wasn’t until 1987 that Ontario fully recognized it as a child protection agency.

Rae rejoined Tikinagan’s board in the early ’90s and then served as chairman of the board, a position he held from 1992 to 2005. He speaks of the guidance he received from elders during that period, including Moses Fiddler, honoured last year with the Oneesh Tam Key Award, and the late Greta Mosquito.

Over time, Rae worked with Tikinagan executive directors to convince the Ontario government and its ministry responsible for child and family services that the First

Nation communities served by Tikinagan were unique, with their own cultures and ways of raising children. As a result, Tikinagan’s services evolved to better reflect “the way we used to raise children,” says Rae. “We said ‘Let’s have agreements with families that are more culturally understandable.’ ” It’s a goal realized in the current Tikinagan service model, Mamow Obiki-ahwahsoowin: Everyone working together to raise our children, Kakegamic points out.

With Tikinagan’s focus on arranging care for children close to home and family, “One benefit is families tend to try to help themselves sooner rather than later,” Rae observes.

Rae has contributed in various leadership

roles to the social, economic, political and spiritual development of his community.

In addition to his three years as Deer Lake’s chief, he chaired the former Pehtabun tribal council and was elected chiefs’ representative to the NAN executive board. He also served for 17 consecutive years as a band councillor in Deer Lake, until 2006.

In business, he was president of Sabourin Lake Airways and sometimes even piloted the company’s aircraft. And he helped his brothers and uncles operate Deer Lake Trading, which had general stores in Deer Lake, Poplar Hill and Berens Lake, Manitoba.

For about 25 years, Rae moderated Deer Lake Mennonite Church meetings and assemblies. He’s still a church leader, regularly officiating for weddings and funerals.

Slowed by a heart attack and open heart surgery in 2008, “I’m feeling better,” Rae says. “I’m able to hunt now.”

He talks proudly of his three adult children and 10 grandchildren, and of the development of Tikinagan to help so many others.

“It’s a big accomplishment for everyone involved – the chiefs who took the chance (to start something new) and the people up north,” he says. “If they didn’t have the commitment and vision, you wouldn’t have Tikinagan. Families are benefitting from Tikinagan and that’s so precious to me.

“I’m so proud to have been part of it.”

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Why have treaty payments never increased?

Robinson Huron Treaty communities threaten to take matter to courts Rick Garrick Wawatay News

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug’s annual treaty payment is not enough to pay for a Gatorade drink in the fly-in community of about 1,000.

“With Gatorade, you can’t even afford that — they’re like four something,” Morris said.

“These Red Bull monster drinks — they’re expensive.”

Morris said he always asked himself why the annual $4 treaty payment has not increased since the treaties were signed while other payments have increased significantly.

“Why after all these years is it four dollars,” Morris said.

“When you look at our contribution agreements, they reflect changes. I think the treaty payments should reflect that too.”

An online CPI inflation calculator indicates that $4 in 1929, the year KI signed the Treaty 9 Adhesion, would now have the same purchasing power as $53.89.

Meanwhile, Treaty 3 band members have been receiving $5 since the treaty was signed in 1873. The online CPI inflation calculator does not go back to 1873, but for the earliest year, 1913, it calculates that $5 would now have the same purchasing power as $116.35.

Morris also asked why the gardening tools and other items promised by the treaty are no longer provided.

“I’d like to have my gardening stuff, I’d like to have my suit, I’d like to have my shotgun

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Families like this one, seen in a photograph taken in 1905 in Fort Hope during the Treaty #9 signing, recieved $4 per person per year under the treaty - the same amount a family recieves in 2012. shells,” Morris said. “But you don’t get those things — it’s just a straight four bucks.”

Morris usually waits a few years before he and his family gather to collect their $4 annual treaty payment.

“We try to get in the range of two-hundred dollars where we can at least go to the store decently and get a couple of shopping bags worth for that amount,” Morris said.

Morris also noted that First

Nation chiefs and councillors do not receive pensions while other elected officials in Canada receive generous pensions, such as Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is set to receive a pension of $5,596,474, according to the Canadian Taxpayer Federation, if he retires in 2019 and ceases to receive his pension at age 80 and $5,456,109 if he retires in 2015.

“When you do six years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years in

politics, there is no pension in it for you,” Morris said about First Nation politicians. “I think this is where INAC (Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada) should get involved and start reviewing its policies and programs to look at the treaty payment, plus when these Indian politicians retire, there should be a pension plan for them just like (other politicians).“ Chiefs representing 21 Rob-

inson Huron Treaty communities recently notified the Crown of their intention to commence an action to have the annuities provisions of the Robinson Huron Treaty enforced by the courts if a settlement cannot be negotiated.

“The treaty is pretty clear that the annuities would increase when the resource revenue generated from the territory increased,” said Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief

Patrick Madahbee. “It couldn’t be plainer that the territory has generated vast amounts of revenues from forestry, mining and other resource development.

Still we receive four dollars per year. That is unfair and not what we bargained for.”

Madahbee pointed to the annual report of the Mining Association of Canada, which indicated about $9 billion was paid last year to provincial and federal governments in aggregate mining taxes and royalties, corporate income taxes and personal income taxes.

“Corporations have realized trillions of dollars in resource wealth from our territories,” Madahbee said. “And various levels of government in Canada are taking big shares of that wealth, some of which rightfully belongs to the First Nations who agreed to treaties like Robinson Huron.”

The Robinson Huron chiefs are seeking an accounting, looking for the level of annuities to be increased and claiming compensation for losses suffered as a result of the Crown’s failure to increase the annuities under the treaty.

“I am holding out hope that the Crown will choose to negotiate and engage in negotiations to settle our claim,” said Serpent River First Nation Chief Isadore Day, who serves as Robinson Huron Treaty commissioner for the Anishinabek Nation. “We are in for a battle that could take a lot of time. I urge our citizens to be patient and to continue their support.”

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